11 Sep
2015
11 Sep
'15
11:24 a.m.
There was a 'slice' of the R1 floating about with some friends of mine in Houston.
It was about the size and shape of the 2001 monolith. From what I was told, it
represented one register, probably a byte, and constructed of about 100 vacuum tubes. It
served as a conversation piece and a coffee table (beer table) at a CAD rep firm, later
sat for a few years in a friends garage next to Billy Gibbons twin red Thunderbirds (he
was a collector of toys like this).
This particular piece of the R1 now sits in the Rice Library in the Woodson Research
Center. I encourage anyone while in Houston to go have a look, the construction is a work
of art, and beautiful.
Randy
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 10:28:04 -0500
From: linimon at lonesome.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: information about the Bendix G-15 and Rice Research Computer?
CC: linimon at lonesome.com
So I have finally been prodded by some people to put together a web
page for the G-15 computer. As well, I am going to put up information
about the Rice Research Computer (later known as the R1), and its
intended succesor, the R2.
Right now my web pages are pretty skeletal and mostly consist of
some old G-15 documentation scans I did in early 2000. Apparently
I have some things that are not on Bitsavers (yet). I have at least
one more document that I need to scan, the Technical Manual.
I do have some R1 documentation which I intend to scan and then send
to either CHM or Rice University Fondren Library.
To some of you that I have already contacted off-list, this will be
duplicate information. Sorry about that. To the others, please let me
know if you have any information about these computers that you would
be willing to share publicly.
Also, beta-testers of the website would be appreciated; email me off-
list for the URLs. I mean, it it _really_ skeletal (e.g. 2 days old.)
mcl